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How many people does TTP or BLA kill????
In a year it's into the hundreds
And we kill a few thousand TTP or BLA is response
We are a nation of 250 million, what effect does a few hundred deaths mostly of locals in the middle of nowhere have on the state and population at large?
The answer is NOTHING
The situation is difficult, not because of the terrorists who we can destroy
It's because the locals are COMPLICIT and we can't find out who is a local and who is a terrorist, the locals are the grass within which the snakes hide
And this will be a ongoing low-level situation maybe FOREVER, because the underlying tension is ethnic
The same with the BLA
However afghans behaviour has resulted in the REPEATED COLLAPSE of Afghanistan now
Millions of Afghans have been thrown out of Pakistan
The border closures and end of trade has resulted in massive economic pain for Afghan traders
Denial of ports and airports have resulted in major consequences for afghans
And now we even have a low level civil war in Afghanistan, which we can make worse to keep afghans busy
The attacks of terrorists we can absorb, but our response can be devastating
We have chosen to be muted , given afghans time, tried to trade and talk, nothing works with afghans and it's now time to punish them severely
Insurgencies don't have to take over to win. Their mere existense let alone the scale of attacks, Pakistan is facing is a win for them.
We have 40% of the country's landmass now unsafe for anyone working with the Pakistani state.
Few countries in the world except maybe some in Africa (Sudan-Somalia) have a worse internal security outlook than Pakistan.
The bleed by a thousand cuts will eventually break down an already fragile bankrupt state. No investment is coming to Pakistan.
Your assumptions about whole ethnicities and an ethnic war already point towards fractured future. Pakistan already has a bad history when it tries to corner whole ethnicities.
Collection of statistics and media attention began from 2000. This is been ongoing for the last 50 years.
We have discussed the reasons endlessly on this forum and the old. Apart from the pashtunist ethnonats we know the solution which is to degrade the taliban as an organisation, an ideology and influence.
For that to happen KPK and Baloch society must evolve and they are evolving. I would like their civilized, progressive, Pakistan cultured middle class and students to take the lead on how they want their society to be run instead of letting their close minded and very traditional crowd.
What kind of arguments is that ? You are saying 240 million -240 = doesn't matter. You can also argues 250-240 million will also make Pakistan much stronger. Because you'll have less people per available resources. Is that how Pakistan is supposed to run????How many people does TTP or BLA kill????
In a year it's into the hundreds
And we kill a few thousand TTP or BLA is response
We are a nation of 250 million, what effect does a few hundred deaths mostly of locals in the middle of nowhere have on the state and population at large?
The answer is NOTHING
The situation is difficult, not because of the terrorists who we can destroy
It's because the locals are COMPLICIT and we can't find out who is a local and who is a terrorist, the locals are the grass within which the snakes hide
And this will be a ongoing low-level situation maybe FOREVER, because the underlying tension is ethnic
The same with the BLA
However afghans behaviour has resulted in the REPEATED COLLAPSE of Afghanistan now
Millions of Afghans have been thrown out of Pakistan
The border closures and end of trade has resulted in massive economic pain for Afghan traders
Denial of ports and airports have resulted in major consequences for afghans
And now we even have a low level civil war in Afghanistan, which we can make worse to keep afghans busy
The attacks of terrorists we can absorb, but our response can be devastating
We have chosen to be muted , given afghans time, tried to trade and talk, nothing works with afghans and it's now time to punish them severely
Insurgencies don't have to take over to win. Their mere existense let alone the scale of attacks, Pakistan is facing is a win for them.
We have 40% of the country's landmass now unsafe for anyone working with the Pakistani state.
Few countries in the world except maybe some in Africa (Sudan-Somalia) have a worse internal security outlook than Pakistan.
The bleed by a thousand cuts will eventually break down an already fragile bankrupt state. No investment is coming to Pakistan.
Your assumptions about whole ethnicities and an ethnic war already point towards fractured future. Pakistan already has a bad history when it tries to corner whole ethnicities.
That's what the ISI is for
afghandustan should ALWAYS be kept in a perpetual state of civil war because ALL afghandu political factions are anti-Pakistani and will NEVER respect Pakistan's sovereignty and the durrand lline. Better for us that they wipe each other out.
2 options.
1. Client government in Kabul, along with a security buffer zone. Anything enters that zone, it gets shot.
2. Military conquest of Kabul.
I know option 2 sounds ridiculous, but we are already fortifying and guarding our frontier bases with our lives and the collateral lives of Pakistani civilians around those bases. Will it be that different to guarding Kabul governmental buildings in a "green zone" set up, only the lives of adjacent civilians will be Afghan ones rather than Pakistani?
Option 1 should be the starting point. Options 2 warrants consideration.
This is the core problem. They will never be at peace with Pakistan, all permutations have been tried to put back together Afghanistan and it has not worked to make Afghanistan a stable and peaceful place. The safest place for all the neighbours to be, is for Afghanistan to be perpetually at war with itself it seems ?
I for one, will be glad to see the back of them given their attitude to females and their rights to education, and life itself.
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